>* the last remaining buffer country between him and NATO end up as part of the NATO/EU/US order.* I have read this claim hundreds of times, but nobody ever me

>* the last remaining buffer country between him and NATO end up as part of the NATO/EU/US order.* I have read this claim hundreds of times, but nobody ever mentions that the Baltic states joined in 2004[0]. Russia has had NATO on its border for over seventeen years, so why would this suddenly be a problem worth going to war over? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlargement_of_NATO#Adriatic_Charter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlargement_of_NATO#Adriatic_C...